<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>CSS text-indent: Hyatt's Evil Test Which Mixes Lots Of Stuff</title> <style type="text/css"> p { font: 16px/1 serif; margin: 0; } .prerequisite { display: inline; font: 1em/1 Ahem, sans-serif; background: red; color: white; } .control { background-color: yellow; position: absolute; top: 75px; height: 60px; width: 200px; border: 2px solid black; } .control .a { background-color: orange; position: absolute; width: 50px; height: 50px; } .control .b { background-color: orange; position: absolute; left: 150px; width: 50px; height: 50px; } .test { background-color: yellow; text-indent: 100px; position: absolute; top: 175px; border: 2px solid black; font: 50px/1 Ahem; } .test .a { background-color: orange; width: 50px; height: 50px; float: left; } .test .b { background-color: orange; display: inline-block; width: 50px; height: 50px; } </style> </head> <body> <p class="prerequisite">Ahem_font_required_for_this_test.</p> <p>The following two blocks should be identical.</p> <div class="control"> <!-- this should shrink wrap to the intrinsic, no-line-wrapping width --> <div class="a"></div> <!-- that's a float. --> <div class="b"></div> <!-- that's an inline-block. it should be text-indented 100px from the left edge of the float. --> <!-- the inline-block should sit on top of the baseline, which should be 0.2em from the bottom of the block, since the Ahem font has a 0.2em descender. --> </div> <div class="test"> <div class="a"></div> <div class="b"></div> </div> </body> </html>